Plaster wall



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Application filed July 18, 1923. Serial No. 652,261.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that l, ALBERT OLIVER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Mama'roneck, in the county of West chester and State of New York, have invented. certain new and useful Improve ments in Plaster `Walls, 'of which the following is aV full, clear, and exact description.

The principal object of the invention/is .to provide for a novel form of plasterwall construction which will be'of -great strength and durability, and capable of being set up or formed in position without the usual and costly framing structure to support the same, such as isA necessary to meet the modern demand of reducing theamount'of struc,

tural materials requiring the employment ofslrilled labor for its installation and to otherwise effect a lowering of the cost-of building designed for human habitation. p

Another object of the invention is to provide for a metal ground, lathing or reinforcement for plaster walls or partitions and the like, and one` of a construction and arrangement of parts whereby to be ofgreat strength and rigidity and Acapableof sustaining the weight of plastic coatin s applied to one or both sides without t e c.ooperation therewith of the'fusual wall or partition s tudding, which-.are to be either wholly eliminated, orotherwise greatly reduced in number, when the invention is put into practice. i

A further object ofthe invention is to provide fora ground or reinforcement of the character mentioned, and one of a novel laminated construction consisting'of a plurality of layers or sheetsY of -wire meshsep- 'arate'd by layers or sheets of paper or other suitable fabric, whereby the plastic material or coatings will be prevented from passing from one side to the other of the ground or reinforcement during its application to one or both sides thereof, the said paper or fabric to be suitably water-proofed, when the ground or reinforcement is to be used in the construction ,of outside walls.

.Another object of the invention is to pro vide for al ground or. reinforcement of the type set forth,.and lone wherein the several layers or ,sheets of wire mesh and paper or fabric aforesaid are to be secured together inv a novel and efficient manner to form a substantially unitary structure capa-- ble of being readily manufactured and sold in sections of either specialor standard di mensions.

A Still further object of the invention is to provide for a ground or reinforcement of the class mentioned, and one forl use in the construction of. any and all thicknesses of walls, both inner and outer, ofplastic materials, and which will be practically sound proof, especially when used in relatively thin partition walls such as are ordinarily employed in apartment .houses and, office buildings.v

With the foregoing and other equally nnportant-objects in view, the invention resides in the certain novel and useful construction as will be hereinafter more fully described, set forth in the appended claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in

which y y Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective View of the interior of a building, and showing a partition wall as constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention, v

Figure 2 is a' horizontal section` throu l1 'the partition wall per se, and showing t e ground or reinforcement as it ap ears when coated on' its'opposite sides wlth plastic materials,

Figure 3 is an elevation of one side of a preferred form of the metal lathing, ground or reinforcement,

Figure l is a- 'fragmentary elevation of the opposite side thereof,

.Figure 5 is a side elevation of the soundv4 deadening lamination or sheet, with a por-J tion thereof broken away to show the fiber or excelsior filling ofthe interior of the same, f

Figure 6 is similar view of the sound deadening pad or sheet, with the addition thereto of anjouter sheet or layer of a water-proofed material, l,

Figure 7 isa fragmentary elevation of a slightly modified form of the plaster ground, and showing t-he alternate arrangement of 4the several laminations or sheets of wire` sponding parts throughout the several views thereof, and with particular reference to Figure '1 through 3, thev preferred embodiment of the wall base or reinforcement comprises a laminated body of sheet form made up of a plurality of superposed sheets ofop'en meslrmetallic fabric or material' 10, 11 and- 12, and ay paper loaded quilt or the like 11 interposed between the wire mesh'sheets 11 and 12.

The lamination or'sheet 10fis' preferably ofthe well known nClinton type of wire mesh, wherein the meshes thereof are refe-l tangular or oblong in conliguration, and the transversely extending wires 10 thereof are spot welded to the parallel longitudinal or vertical wires 10 at ther points of cross- A ing therewith. The lamination or sheet 10 f The paper lamination or sheet 14- ispref- .erably vformed of two sheets of ordinary building paper o-rthe like, padded or quilted with a filling of a fibrous material, such as paper eX'celsior, between -the same,'tl1e two sheets of paper being designated 14a and 14",

and the filling 14;", wherever they appear in the drawings. This padded sheet 14 acts to 'deaden the sound at either side of a wall havin the ground or reinforcement embedde within the same, and, when incorporated 1n the reinforcement in the manner indicated for the same, admits of the construction of relatively 'thin walls, such as the partition walls of apartment and office .buildings without. fea-r of sounds and 'paper from buckling or breaking during the application of the plaster coatings to one or both sides of the reinforcement.

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ln the construction of outside walls or buildings or the like, it is sometimes desirable to protect the padded sheet 14 from moisture at the outer side thereof, and to such enda sheet of a. water-proofed paper 13 will `be. disposed at the outer side of the sheet 14; and between the wire mesh sheets 11 and 12. As shown in Figure (5, the padded sheet 14 will be first laid on the water-proofed sheet 13, and then both sheets will be interposed between the said sheets of wire mesh 11 and 12, However, the waterproofed sheet 13 may, if desired, be interposed alone between the wire mesh sheets 1() and 11, with thel padded sheet 14 between the wire mesh sheets 11 and 12, but, in any case, the sheet 13 will be disposed at the y outer side of the sheet 14 to fully cover and protect the opposed side thereof.

-As shown in Figures 't' and 8, a sheet of building paper or the like is interposed bctween the sheets of wire mesh 10, 11 and 12,

the paper sheet 13 between the wire mesh sheets 10 and 11, and the paper sheet 14 bctween the wire mesh sheets 11 and 12, and in this case the wire mesh sheet 10 will still while the sheets 11 and 12 are of any stand ard but less costly type of wire mesh, substantially as shown. In this instance of the invention, one or both of the pa r sheets 13 and 14 may be water-proofe especially when the ground or reinforcement 1s to be used in the construction of outside walls.

To secure the several laminations or sheets of wire mesh 10, 11 and 12 and of paper 13 and 14, together and into inal unitary7 form, and after their assembly'into the alternate arrangement as hereinbefore explained, certain of the longitudinal members or wires '10,, of the lamination or sheets 10 are provided with a plurality of equidistantly spaced loop portions 15 o lset to one side of the same, which are to be Apushed through the paper laminations 13 and 14 and the aligned meshes of the wire mesh laminations 11 and 12, and until the sheet 10 closely abats-'the adjacent sheet or lamination of wire "mesh 11, on the one hand, or the opposed face of the paper sheet or lamination'l, on the other hand. when the free ends of the loop portions 15 Kbe made lof the Clinton type of wire mesh, y

lill) will project outwardly o't the sheet or lami- .nation 12. These spaced loop portions 1!) are arranged in vertical rows, so that sepal rate straight wires or rods 16 may be threaded through the same to bmd or tie the several sheets or laminations tightly tically and horizontally, are a. matter of de yle.

Mamme sign andv vary in accordance therewith. 'llhe tie Wires or rods 16, by being extended vertically, assist in sustaining any crushing yAny suitable method ofapplying the reinforcement or ground to the, standing structure may be. employed, and it is par# ticularly desirable that the strength and rigidity of the same be such that few, if any,

of the iisual wall or partition studding be made use of, so. as to reduce the.. cost vof buildingconstruction generally, but, in the caso of the presence ofwooden studding,

the reinforcement or `ground sections or units are to be, fastened thereto by .means of staples or the likev and at the opposite sides .thereo f. lin this case.,` laster ywill only be applied to the 'outer 'si es of the reinforcestudding, after the manner `usually -employed in lathed `and plastered walls. lln the use of' metaluprights'or ystudding, the

' grounds or reinforcements may be vapplied thereto by any, of the usualfori'ns of clipJs, bolts, rivets, .or-L tyingv wires, as may' e most convenient#V orl desired. Where no studding is employed, the reinforcements or grounds will be fastened or anchored at Atheir upper and loafer side edges .tothe ceiling and floory structures, when plaster can be readily applied to the opposite sides of the same, which is particularly desirable in modern building vand house construction. lBy making use of the reinforcement having the layer or lamination 14, of padded paper or other material, relativelythin partition walls may be constructed without the. noise -or sound at one side of a wall being transmitted to the other side thereof, by mount` ing the reinforcements without studding. supports and applying the plaster directly to the opposite sides .of the same.- This is also true inthe manufacture )flmoutside walls, but, ofcourse, the outer plaster coating should be laid on to a greater thickness than would otherwise be necessary. In ce ment or stucco .building construction,- the cement or stucco grouting will be applied directly to the outer side of the' continuous surface sheet 13 and over the metallic lamination l0 to embed the latter therein, 'the' plastic material bg applied rin any suitable or known manner, as by being squirted againstfthe laminations or sheets '10' and 13 with a Hiscox gun, in the use of which layer afterlayer of the grouting is squirted or sprayed one upon the other until the desired thickness of plaster is reached. The interiorplaster finish of the wall or walls is afterwards spread or otherwise applied over the lamina-tions or sheets 12 and 14 in the usual manner.

l lt will be.. readily obvious that these groundsI or reinforcements may be manufactured in assembled, formfor shipment fromthe factoryV to the point vof use, or the separate laminations or sheets may be assembled directly at the point of use, but, it has been found that the same are much more vsatis-factory -for handling and are more ac'cu'raitely assembled atithe factory than when Aseparately delivered for assembling on the `job. A

,From the foregoing, it will be Well understood that,while preferred embodiments of the reinforcement or ground have been ldescribed and illustrated herein in specific .terms and details of construction and arrangement, various changes .in and modifications of the samev may be resorted io wlthout departing from the spirit of the in;

vention, or the scope of the claims appended l .hereto ments y'at the opposite sides of the partition Having thus fully described the invention', what. is claimed, is

.1. A 'plastic' wall reinforcement' comprising a plurality ofsheets of an open mesh material, onelof the outer of said sheetsvbe ing ofv a heavier grade than the others thereof, `a. sound'deadening sheet of coni tinuous surface material interposed between vtlresheets of open mesh material of the lighter grade, securing loops carried by the sheet of heavy grade of openv mesh material and passing through the other of thesheets o f/open mesh material and thesaid sheet of 'sound dea-dening material, and straight members adapted .to be enga-gedV through aligned sets of said securing loops at the opposite side of the reinforcement for retain* ingthe sheets in assembled condition.

A2.' plastic wall reinforcement comprising a plurality ofl sheets of open mesh matealternately interposed between said sheets of open mesh material, means carried by one of the outer of the said sheets of open mesh material and passing through the other of such sheets and the. said sheets of continuous surface materiah'and means disposed at the outer side of the opposite outer sheet of open meshvmaterial and cooperative with said first mentioned meansfor securing all of the said sheets together. l

A plastic groundcomprising'a iplurality of sheets of an open mesh material disposed in superposed relation, one of the `rial, a sheet of continuous surface material 'l outer of said sheets being of a heavier construction than the others thereof, said heav- 1 ier sheetof open 'mesh material embodying longitudinall7 and transversely crossed members forming `meshes substantially recadapted to beengaged throu material 'and' adapted to be passed through the other of such sheets and the said sheets 10 of continuous surfaee material, and means h said`looped portions at the inner sideof ille. ground for securing the said several sheets together.

ALBERT OLIVER. 

